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Never Missing the Train Again

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Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by crazygringo »

cptcobalt wrote: post #10
crazygringo wrote: post #5

You don't have to jailbreak your Kindle, or render images. You can just point its web browser at any webpage you design, and disable the Kindle's "screensaver" (its ads or sleep screen) with debug commands [1, 2]. You'll be stuck with a browser bar along some edge of the Kindle (you can rotate the device orientation to put it at the bottom or right edge), but it's a small price to pay for being able to write your wea…

It would be even cooler if Amazon also encouraged and built a "Kiosk mode" browser view of the kindle for this sort of display hacking.

They really ought to, it's a fantastic reuse mechanism.

Like I totally understand why they wouldn't for new Kindles, since I assume part of their ebook sales help subsidize the hardware, but if they enabled it once a device hit 5 years old or something, I don't see what they'd have to lose.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by sourcepluck »

Terr_ wrote: post #19
BalinKing wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OED says that "busses" is an acceptable plural in American English (I haven't read the article though, so I don't know what dialect the author speaks/writes).

> You might see the plural busses, but that form is so rare that it seems like an error to many people. [...] When the word bus was new, the two plurals were in competition, but buses overtook busses in frequency in the 1930s, and today is the overwhelming choice of writers and editors. -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/plural-of-bus Went ahead and used Google Ngram viewer to show the popularity difference,…

Ooh nice, I didn't know that Ngram tool! I've heard references to word frequency but didn't know where to do it. Thanks for jumping in with a bit of analysis.

Of course, if USA-based anglophones want to continue using a particular spelling or pronunciation, we know we don't have the power to stop them. I bow out of this one.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by hiatus »

ramses0 wrote: post #7

R.I.P. Pebble: https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/community/a... """ Caltrain is a Pebble app that displays upcoming trains at a station, and where those trains will stop along the remainder of each of their routes. Finally, it uses PebbleKit JS to retrieve your location on launch. If it gets a response before you manually choose a station, it will automatically show the station closest to you. """ ...y…

We've really taken steps backwards since pebble. We used to be able to respond to messages by talking into our wrists, for ~$100. I switched to Garmin after using rebble for a bit, and that's the feature I miss most.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by m463 »

pugworthy wrote: post #33

In truth I rarely ever miss a train, a bus, or a plane. They miss me though because they are delayed.

I think travel by bus/train is more friendly when they have "headway".

Instead of a specific schedule, there is a bus/train every "n" minutes.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by RicoElectrico »

alilleybrinker wrote: post #35

It ought to be easier to get a blank slate of a small device with some compute power and a screen, like the Kindle here, without having to jailbreak something.

There is one, it's called the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, but due to the small volume and the target audience largely being not-my-own-money (think educational institutions), the price is quite detached from the production cost.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

RicoElectrico wrote: post #37
alilleybrinker wrote: post #35

It ought to be easier to get a blank slate of a small device with some compute power and a screen, like the Kindle here, without having to jailbreak something.

There is one, it's called the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, but due to the small volume and the target audience largely being not-my-own-money (think educational institutions), the price is quite detached from the production cost.

I think more of the issue might be the eink screens. As far as I can tell, there just aren't 5+ inch eink screens for cheap.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by GeoAtreides »

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #38
RicoElectrico wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is one, it's called the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, but due to the small volume and the target audience largely being not-my-own-money (think educational institutions), the price is quite detached from the production cost.

I think more of the issue might be the eink screens. As far as I can tell, there just aren't 5+ inch eink screens for cheap.

yes they are: https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm?___SI...

A 4.37inch E-Paper in 3 colors is $24, problem is need you to program yourself (they have code sample in python, for raspberry pi), and you need a raspberry pi, case, cables, etc.

Also, these cheap epaper displays are, of course, of lower quality (slower, lower resolution) than an kindle display.

Re: Never Missing the Train Again

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

GeoAtreides wrote: post #39
6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think more of the issue might be the eink screens. As far as I can tell, there just aren't 5+ inch eink screens for cheap.

yes they are: https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm?___SI... A 4.37inch E-Paper in 3 colors is $24, problem is need you to program yourself (they have code sample in python, for raspberry pi), and you need a raspberry pi, case, cables, etc. Also, these cheap epaper displays are, of course, of lower quality (slower, lower resolution) than an kindle display.

They jump up in price pretty quickly as size goes up. The cheapest 5+ inch display I found at your link was over $40, and it's about 100PPI. It's certainly not prohibitive, but certainly priced high compared to "just jailbreak a kindle" for any remotely kindle-comparable display, right? (remotely comparable in size and resolution)
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